Iraqi Sunni Muslim fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units take part in a ceremony marking the Iraqi Police Day at Amiriyat al-Fallujah in Anbar province, Jan. 9, 2016. (photo by REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani) On March 12, US Consul General Steve Walker visited Al-Sadr Teaching Hospital in Basra to pay his respects to wounded members of the Popular Mobilization Units.…
Panama Tax Haven Scandal: The Bigger Picture US and UK – Not Panama – Biggest Tax Havens for Money Laundering Criminals Posted by : George Washington Post date: 04/06/2016 – 17:03 The “Panama Papers” tax haven leak is big … After all, the Prime Minister of Iceland resigned over the leak, and investigations are taking…
By Alan Hart I must begin with a clarification. “The world” of my headline is inhabited only by our so-called leaders and their governments, not the civil societies of nations. And the complicity of our so-called leaders and their governments in Zionism’s crimes is in my view more by default out of fear of…
By Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: The review below was published in the current issue of Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and Islamicate World. I am posting it here because I believe that Jeff Halper’s book deserves the widest possible reading. It explains clearly and convincingly one of the deepest and least…
By Dr Maung Zarni Dr Maung Zarni is a non-resident research scholar, Sleuth Rith Institute, (A permanent Documentation Centre of Cambodia) & former visiting lecturer, Harvard Medical School, USA Border guards in Bangladesh are refusing entry to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. Credit: Anurup Titu/IPS PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Mar 17 2016 (IPS) – The persisting humanitarian crisis…
By Alan Hart March 01, 2016 “Information Clearing House” -It’s not too much of a secret that Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a Trump-like megalomaniac and a tyrant with few equals, is happy to do dirty work for Israel. And it may now be that he is seeking to prepare the ground for Mohammed Dahlan, almost…
By Mohamad Elmasry Leading Egyptians, including media figures, have begun to turn their fire away from the Brotherhood and toward President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi A large body of media research suggests that media systems inevitably reflect the larger sociopolitical systems in which they are situated. Thus, democratic political systems tend to produce relatively free press institutions…
Udi Aloni said comments at Berlin Film Festival were directed at Israeli government, rather than at country he ‘loves’ Filmmaker Udi Aloni is interviewed at the Berlin Film Festival (YouTube screen grab) An award-winning Israeli director has branded Israel’s government as “fascist” during a press conference at a film festival in Germany. Udi…
Egypt’s interior minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar said authorities were exerting “huge efforts” to investigate last month’s torture and murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni (photo by Mostafa Abulezz/AFP/File) Egypt’s interior minister apologised Monday for human rights abuses committed by police after an officer killed a driver with his service weapon in Cairo last week. Magdy…
By Abdullah Al-Arian The final step in the restoration of Egypt’s authoritarian system of government appears to be complete. Ali Abdel Al is elected speaker of Egypt’s parliament [REUTERS] Egypt has been without a parliament since 2012. As the drastically reconstituted legislative body convenes this week for the first time in nearly four years,…